Springfield — A white, convertible BMW waded through a flooded street outside the Rock-Tenn Paper Mill Sunday as water nearly flowed over the driver and passenger-side windows.

About 20 feet away Ricky Taylor, owner of Ricky’s All Pro Towing, watched on from his white tow truck.

“See, those are the ones you got to watch out for,” Taylor said.

Taylor began his day at 8 a.m. and had towed six cars by Sunday afternoon. He also pushed two out of the puddling water with his son, Billy Jo, perched up in the passenger seat. Not all of them were compact cars the size a BMW either.

“On the outside of each lane it’s about three-feet deep,” Taylor said. “A lot of people will just try to go fast enough and drown out.”

There are a few reasons cars were getting stuck – mainly water getting in the engine’s air induct causing it to conk out. With ditches failing to drain on both sides of Business 98, the water level was high enough to reach the electrical circuits on most cars as well.

Rains persisted Friday and Saturday amounting in about three inches throughout Bay County, according to the National Weather Service. After a break beginning at about 10 a.m. the rain is expected to continue through midday Tuesday amounting in three to five inches average in Bay County.

“There is a possibility for some localized rainfall of higher amount ranging from eight to 10 inches,” said Don Harrigan, of NWS. “That is much more localized though.”

An average of an inch and a half is expected to fall every 12 hours until Tuesday. During Monday night, the NWS will be monitoring threats for isolated tornadoes across Bay County.

“Looks like I’ll be out here all night,” Taylor said

Though signs on either side of the pooling water on Bus. 98 warned drivers of the hazard, many assumed they could make it, Taylor said.

“People just don’t know what they’re doing,” he added. “They try to just pull through there and get stuck.”

Taylor said if they wanted to pay him, they could, but he was not charging the people he assisted.

“I get to spend time with my son,” Taylor said. “And just sit here and help folks out.”

River flooding is a concern to the west of Bay County along the Choctawhatchee River, weather officials said.